Apple Apartments Edinburgh

Sleek, sophisticated city-centre serviced apartments, perfectly placed for shopaholics as well as sightseers. If you love a cool, contemporary look and want the freedom of setting your own timetable without the bother of making your bed, this could be your idea of the perfect home-from-home.

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Location

9/10

As Edinburgh locations go, this is discreetly desirable. Right in the middle of George Street, so particularly good for many of the best shops as well as the swishest bars. There’s no shortage of cafés and restaurants within a five-minute walk as well. The Princes Street tram stop is a three-minute walk; Edinburgh Castle or Waverley Station 15 tops. If you’re willing to go high enough (90 steps - no lift) to the Castle Suite, you will be rewarded with one of the best views in the city: a panorama of the Old Town from the castle to Arthur’s Seat on one side and across the New Town to the Firth of Forth from the other.

Style & character

9/10

These elegant, high-ceilinged two- and three-bedroom New Town apartments strictly adhere to a black, white and grey colour scheme, executed to a high spec throughout. Gently minimalist, so no sacrifice of comfort over style and probably pleasing to just about anyone. There are pony skin chairs, corner sofas to stretch out on and black and white photographs to compliment the furnishings. Fresh flowers are a fine finishing touch.

Service & facilities

7/10

Although the flats are serviced daily, don’t expect much in the way of human contact – there’s an anonymous doorway with code entry, lockboxes for individual keys and a telephone number to call if you need help. Getting to your flat is a matter of climbing stairs – lots of them. But once you’re in, all is immaculate, with good quality appliances (Dualit kettles and toasters) in properly equipped kitchens that are so attractive you will want to stay in just for the pleasure of cooking in them.

You could linger here a month and want for almost nothing (although an eye for detail in the maintenance department wouldn’t go amiss: a microwave missing a vital knob in a self-catering apartment is more than a minor annoyance).

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Rooms

8/10

Bedrooms are simple, calm spaces with padded headboards, good quality linen, dove grey cotton quilted bedspread/throws and thick carpets to keep things warm underfoot. Palest grey subway-tiled bathrooms feature large drench showers, heated towel rails and a good selection of Bulgari toiletries - in fact, all the extras you would expect in a good hotel: robes and slippers, hairdryer and even GHD hair straighteners. Sitting rooms and bedrooms all have smart televisions.

Food & drink

It’s a serviced apartment, so you’re looking at milk, bottled water, coffee, tea, shortbread and some spectacularly shiny apples, but there’s no end of places to eat nearby, as well as a small supermarket around the corner and a Marks and Spencer Food Hall less than five minutes' walk away.

Value for money

8/10

From £180 in low season; and from £480 in high. Free Wi-Fi.

Access for guests with disabilities?

Not suitable.

Family-friendly?

Cots are available on request, but those stairs could be an obstacle for small people as well as parents hauling buggies up and down.